When I run the numbers, Obama wins

Democrat Obama has positioned himself as a quasi-liberal appealing to the center. At the same time, Republican John McCain has been running away from the center-right and pandering to a conservative base that’s never been too comfortable with him.

Obama wants the U.S. out of Iraq. McCain steeps all of his Iraq War talk in a frothy mug of “honor.”

McCain doesn’t want to raise my taxes. Obama wants to lower them. McCain calls this “class warfare,” but isn’t his promise to lower taxes even more for the wealthy an attack on the rest of us? (Hint: it is.)

Obama is a con artist, who wants to steal the election.
Smart people are hustled by con artist’s all the time,
beware of the smooth talking devil!

Obama’s political add during the world series is nothing but trying to “buy” the office of president.

OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY VIEW VOTERS AS FOOLS,
WHO ARE EASY TO DECEIVE.

Ken Hoffmann

Let’s take it by the numbers:
1. “Cool and deliberate”, in Obama’s case equals inexperienced, unknowing and a good talker.
2. Obama has TRIED to position himself as a “quasi-liberal” but his actual record is that of an “ultra-liberal”.
3. Obama wants us to crawl out of Iraq, without any thought as to what will happen next. McCain would depend on the leaders on the ground.
4. McCain/Palin have PROVEN that they can/will reduce taxes for everyone. Obama has lied about reducing taxes if you look at his proposed expenditures and voting history. (hint: redistribution of wealth is socialism).
5. I’m not happy about a McCain presidency; I’m fear an Obama presidency; I think Joe Biden is …; but I could live with a proven, sucessful ex-governor as President.

Tom Wagoner

Run the numbers? Are these the same numbers as Daily News’ position in the Sunday front page “Our Endorsements”?
Does that mean ALL daily news employees support Obama?
Or does that reflect that the Daily News is a left wing media bias news outlet and is not fair and balance?
Don’t think I am fully endorsing McCain but what I want you point out is every citizen has the right to choose who they vote for whether its for a politician or a Proposition.
Your opinion is your own but fully endorsing one over the other with out sharing your companies true feelings iis not fair. Each employee should get their chance to express their vote without reservations or intimidation from those at the top.

What you should have done was give all the pros and cons of each candidate and let the viewers decide. But that is not your way is it. Your arrogance that you know better has really shown by that article.

Well guess what, this subscriber can only hit you where it hurts the most and that is by not subsribing to your paper.
When will you ever learn? Or maybe you are part of the elitest group that think you can take over Americas core values and put yours first.

It will never happen so why not sit down and compromize over what’s good for all and not just what you want.

I’m afraid to look too far ahead if Obama and all these leftist take over the House and Senate.
That means you will have all the right to change this nation into something its not and lead this country towards those things that have led other nations into the dump.

Have you ever asked yourself what realy makes Obama think?
Heres a guy who has worked with a terorist, sat in a church that preaches aginst America and has hired the same economic advisors that have desroyed our current economy.

How about Pelosi and Reid? They state the war is over and we lost. Their so against the current President that hi shope for this nation is jeoprodised. History will surely show that he was the right president for this point in time.
How about that loudmouth who said the Goverment should run the oil complanies. Do you really think the Goverment can really run big companies? Where’s the incentivie for people to start their own businesses. If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t be as far as we are as a nation.
Can you imagine all the pork that is shaved off and distributed to these politicians and special interest groups?
Who’s going to pay for all this? Your grandkids and mine. GOD help them when we are gone.
Shouldn’t we leave a better America?

Nuff said, the Daily News has disappoited me.

Steven Rosenberg

Pity that Fox News which I’ve pointed out on more than one occasion is an outlet that I actually enjoy for its a) production values (which are among the best in cable) and b) actual balance in limited cases (i.e. having NPR’s Juan Williams and Mara Liasson on their air) perverted the meaning of the words “fair and balanced” when all they mean is “controlled by rich conservatives, not rich liberals.”

So if I (or the Daily News) picked McCain, we’d be “fair and balanced”? I credit the GOP with nominating an actual centrist who actually does cross party lines (not that he would ever let us forget it), but all that pandering to a base that still hates him (but who didn’t put forth a credible candidate; and no, Huckabee and Romney were NOT credible) … that makes me very uncomfortable with McCain.

The entire campaign was a test of character for Hillary Clinton, and there are many who wished she had done better, not gone negative, kept Bill under heavy sedation and really connected with the voters. A few tears on a couple of days didn’t cut it.

Let me tell you, there are portions of the Obama platform that don’t sit so well with the “mainstream media,” and by that I mean all media not wholly controlled by the right wing. He’s not for gay marriage, he pushes the idea of limiting abortions through some sort of moral high ground while not saying anything about better access to medical care family planning-wise and otherwise. His health-care plan probably won’t do the job. He’s way too cozy with the nation’s moneyed interests, who seem to have no problem with him being president instead of McCain.

I could go on, and I will.

Sure Obama isn’t the most experienced guy to have ever sought the office of president. But if by “experience” you mean McCain blowing any chance of luring centrist (or even left-of-center) voters by nominating a patently unqualified, potentially dangerous running mate strictly for the “mavericky” shock/schlock-value, then “experience” is overrated.

And while McCain made a fatal mistake in tapping Sarah Palin, Obama didn’t make the best decision in picking Biden. That “three Iraqs” plan was about as boneheaded as getting into the country in the first place. And all that speech-stealing? Not good. Having every third word out of his mouth be either “Scranton” or “Wilmington”? Tiresome.

McCain was a POW, a military man by training and tradition. I respect that immensely. But when he throws around the word “honor” when talking about Iraq which is a form of code that most Americans don’t understand what he means is that we coulda/woulda/shoulda won in Vietnam if only someone like him had been or will be in charge. Vietnam is over. We don’t need to repeat it. Except we already are.

Iraq ain’t about “winning.” It’s about the country being stupid and deluded enough in the first place to get involved in a military campaign that was both unnecessary to embark upon and impossible to satisfactorily complete. More than four thousand dead Americans, with many more facing life-changing injuries, many billions of dollars, a country more ruined than when we started, more dead Iraqis, an emboldened Iran, a world that has either lost respect for the U.S. or openly hates us … should I go on?

Under “don’t write checks that you can’t cash” in any dictionary of phraseology should be a picture of George W. Bush and the delusion that led him to spend his precious political capital on a war that’s costing the whole world.

Yeah, the surge seems to have “worked,” but unless we’re ready, willing and able to double that troop presence, the rest of the world and its needs be damned, and keep them there for 20 years, chances of a desirable outcome for the U.S. remain poor.

And with a second-term president who, after destroying the nation’s standing abroad and its economy at home, seems to have checked out long ago, we’re supposed to elect another GOP candidate? A guy who doesn’t appear to be in the best of health who picks a divisive, unqualified VP nominee?

I’d be lying if I said that I wouldn’t feel better if Obama had a full Senate term under his political belt. But the opening is now, and the guy took it. It was Hillary’s nomination to lose, and she did just that. As I say in my commentary, Obama should’ve picked her as VP nominee. She deserves that at the very least, but she didn’t get it.

And even though Obama has never been a state governor (why that “executive experience” is supposed to be so damn important I’ll never know), even in a backwater state for only two years, you can see how he has built his organization, how he picks his advisers, how he runs his campaign (he keeps it close, he deliberates, there are no leaks). Did I mention that he appears to actually think about things before he says them?

Did I also mention that the Bush tax cuts do nothing for me because I’m not wealthy. Call this class warfare if you must, but Joe the Plumber should worry about being taxed more when he makes the $250,000 per year in the plumbing business he doesn’t yet own.

I’ll have the same worry when I’m dragging in $250,000 and having “capital gains” all over the place. It’s the payroll tax that’s killing me, and I don’t think anybody’s offering to make that all better.

After eight years like we’ve had, I think it’s more than time for somebody else to be in charge. Give me a true centrist Republican who’s not all about helping the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us, who’s not plotting neocon adventures all over the globe, and who doesn’t want all of us to adhere to conservative Christian morality whether we want to or not, and I’ll consider voting for him/her.

Until then, it’s Obama, however imperfect he may be, who has earned my vote.

proudtobe

The election campaign is tough and every one thinks who has better chances to win .
The websitehttp://www.khadayata-parivar.com/uselection08.aspx
presents in brief the chances for each of the candidates (Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. Barrack Obama, and Sen Joe Biden) to win the election on November 4 and predicts the winning ticket to be Obama-Biden by a margin of about 3 % of electoral votes on the basis of the astrological analysis. Will it be?
(Previous two elections are cited for reference on the site.)